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    Benoît Leborgne (24 March 1751 – 21 June 1830), better known as Count Benoît de Boigne or General Count de Boigne, was a military adventurer from the...
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    East India Company suffered on the subcontinent until Chillianwala. Benoît de Boigne, a French officer in the service of 6th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry...
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    Adèle d'Osmond, Comtesse de Boigne (born Adélaïde Charlotte Louise Éléonore d'Osmond) (10 February 1781 – 10 May 1866) was a French aristocrat and writer...
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    supremacy over Northern India. In this he was assisted by the genius of Benoît de Boigne, whose influence in consolidating the power of Mahadji Sindhia is seldom...
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    débâcle of the Third Battle of Panipat, and in this, he was assisted by Benoît de Boigne.[citation needed] After the growth in power of feudal lords like the...
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    most famous landmark in Chambéry. It was built in 1838 to honour Benoît de Boigne's feats when he was in India. The monumental fountain has realistic...
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  • tactics, led the Rathors into a trap where Boigne shot them down and then bayoneted the surviving horsemen. Boigne, after defeating the Rathors, immediately...
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    French commander Benoit de Boigne couldn't match the valor of the Rajput troops who forced them to retreat and Bijay captured Ajmer. de Boigne came back to...
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  • 1780–1803 Military adventurer in India who served under Benoît de Boigne. He succeeded De Boigne as commander-in-chief of Sindhia's army until the defeat...
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    was built by French engineers under the control of French officers Benoît de Boigne and Perron. The Battle of Aligarh was fought on 1 September 1803 during...
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    empire, developing a well-trained modern army under the command of Benoît de Boigne. Daulatrao therefore looked upon himself less as a member of the Maratha...
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  • not ready to negotiate and sent his army under his trusted general Benoit De Boigne to invade Marwar and bring Vijay Singh to terms. The Jodhpur raja asked...
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    and Vandavasi (1760). The French military adventurer and mercenary, Benoît de Boigne, made his name in India under the Marathas, whom he assisted in many...
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    seated on the Mughal throne, and everything is still done in his name. Benoît de Boigne, (1790). Nawab Majad-ud-Daula was followed by a known enemy of the...
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  • Maratha prince Daulat Scindia. He served under the French mercenary Benoît de Boigne, who promoted him to captain in 1794. By 1795, he was in command of...
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  • published Fountain of the Elephants, a biography of the French adventurer Benoît de Boigne. He also wrote two autobiographies. Desmond Young was born in Port...
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    small margins. In 1787, Mahadji Scindia and his force led by General Benoît de Boigne invaded Jaipur but had to retreat after failure at the Battle of Lalsot...
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    European artillery and secured the services of the noted Frenchman Benoît de Boigne who had received training from the best of the European military schools...
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    Maratha army as an ensign under Benoît de Boigne, the French commander of Maharaja Scindia's forces of Gwalior State. Boigne was impressed by his family ancestry...
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    European artillery and secured the services of the noted Frenchman Benoît de Boigne who had received training from the best of the European military schools...
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  • Hastings Arun Bali as Mansoor Shah Baba / Alamgir II Sunil Nagar as Benoit De Boigne "Metro Plus Chennai / Telewatch : The return of the Sultan". The Hindu...
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    Mughal general Ismail Beg. The European armed and trained battalion of Benoît de Boigne defeated the Jaipur army at battle of Patan. Marathas managed to gain...
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    his battalions in European fashion with the aid of French soldier Benoît de Boigne. During the Battle of Ally Ghur in 1803, it was captured from the Marathas...
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    dramatis personae include the historical adventurers, the Frenchman Benoit de Boigne (1751–1830), the German Walter Reinhardt (1720–1778) and the Irishman...
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  • the service of a Malabar Rajah for higher wages. Portuguese historian João de Barros stated that there were at least 2,000 Portuguese fighting in the armies...
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    the French king's Irish Brigade. He was a friend of, among others, Benoît de Boigne. O'Connell left France for England after the French Revolution. The...
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  • charged the Maratha army leaving their general Bhim Singh behind. Benoît de Boigne's Campoos infantry shot the Rathors with artillery and musket fire killing...
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    Mort de Lucrèce Le Drac Chambéry: "Fontaine des éléphants" - bronze and cast iron, 1838. This was erected in honour of General Benoît de Boigne, a generous...
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    Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association. De Wael, Herman (2001). "Top London 1908 Olympians". Herman's Full Olympians...
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